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1) Happening
Author
Language
English
Description
"In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plague: Understanding that her pregnancy will mark her and her family as social failures, she knows she cannot keep that child. This is the story, written forty years later, of a trauma Ernaux never overcame. In a France where abortion was illegal, she attempted, in vain, to self-administer the abortion with a knitting needle. Fearful and desperate, she...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"The Young Man is Annie Ernaux's account of her passionate love affair with A., a man some 30 years younger, when she was in her fifties. The relationship pulls her back to memories of her own youth and at the same time leaves her feeling ageless, outside of time- together with a sense that she is living her life backwards. Amidst talk of having a child together, she feels time running its course, and menopause approaching. The Young Man recalls Ernaux...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In this rare glimpse into the life of Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano, the author takes up his pen to tell his personal story. He addresses his early years--shadowy times in postwar Paris that haunt his memory and have inspired his world-cherished body of fiction. In the spare, absorbing, and sometimes dreamlike prose that translator Mark Polizzotti captures unerringly, Modiano offers a memoir of his first twenty-one years. Termed one of his "finest...
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Language
English
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Description
"How does one live? How does one do the good or honorable thing, while flourishing and feeling happy? This question obsessed Renaissance writers, none more than Montaigne, perhaps the first truly modern individual. A nobleman, public official and wine-grower, he wrote free-roaming explorations of his thought and experience, unlike anything written before. He called them 'essays,' meaning 'attempts' or 'tries.' Into them, he put whatever was in his...
8) Open heart
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st American ed.
Language
English
Description
In this unforgettable book, the award-winning writer, during his recovery after a life-threatening heart surgery, reflected on his many losses and accomplishments, and on all that remained to be done, sharing his aspirations for his writings and his hope that he made the world a better place.
Author
Publisher
Gallimard
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Description
"""Vous en avez de la mémoire..." Oui, beaucoup... Mais j'ai aussi la mémoire de détails de ma vie, de personnes que je me suis efforcé d'oublier. Je croyais y être parvenu et sans que je m'y attende, après des dizaines d'années, ils remontent à la surface, comme des noyés, au détour d'une rue, à certaines heures de la journée.""--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Series
Everyman's Library volume 380
Publisher
Everyman's Library
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Marguerite Duras was one of the leading intellectuals and novelist of post-war France, but her wartime writings were not published in full until after her death. The Wartime Notebooks trace Duras's formative experiences - including her difficult childhood in Indochina and her harrowing wait for her husband's return from Nazi internment - revealing the personal history behind her bestselling novels. The Lover is the best known of these; set in pre-war...
Author
Publisher
A New Directions book
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"This bracing new nonfiction book by the young superstar Édouard Louis is both a searing j'accuse of the viciously entrenched French class system and a wrenchingly tender love letter to his father. Highly acclaimed for The End of Eddy, Édouard Louis in Who Killed My Father rips into France's long neglect of the working class and its overt contempt for the poor, accusing the complacent French--at the minimum--of negligent homicide. "Racism," he quotes...
13) Time regained
Publisher
Kimstim
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
Français
Description
Raul Ruiz's most ambitious literary adaptation and considered his greatest cinematic achievement. The movie distills all of Marcel Proust's iconic In Search of Lost Time into a single epic feature.
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
V. 1."The Letters of Samuel Beckett offers for the first time a comprehensive range of letters of one of the greatest literary figures of the twentieth century. This volume includes letters written between 1929 and 1940. It provides a vivid and personal view of Western Europe in the 1930s, marked by the gradual emergence, against his own hesitations and the indifference or hostility of others, of Beckett's unique voice and sensibility. Even in the...
16) Change
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
"An autobiographical novel from the international bestselling author Édouard Louis - about success, transformation, and the perils of leaving the past behind"--
18) Colette
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After marrying 'Willy', a successful Parisian writer, Colette is transplanted to the intellectual and artistic splendor of Paris. Willy convinces Colette to ghostwrite a semi-autobiographical novel about a witty and brazen country girl named Claudine, sparking a bestseller and a cultural sensation, inspiring additional Claudine novels. Colette's fight over creative ownership and gender roles drives her to overcome societal constraints, revolutionizing...
19) The kingdom
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
"A sweeping fictional account of the early Christians, whose unlikely beliefs conquered the world. Gripped by the tale of a Messiah whose blood we drink and body we eat, the genre-defying author Emmanuel Carrr̈e revisits the story of the early Church in his latest work. With an idiosyncratic and at times iconoclastic take on the charms and foibles of the Church fathers, Carrr̈e ferries readers through his "doors" into the biblical narrative. Once...
Author
Publisher
Frances Foster Books, Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A tribute to the life of the creator of "The Little Prince" traces his early achievements as a pilot, his efforts to break aviation records, and the experiences that inspired his writing life.
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